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Pressbook VT E FIN160612A4 www.virgintales.com After successful screenings at Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland and the Swiss theatrical premiere, Mirjam von Arx's latest documentary VIRGIN TALES will have its international premiere at AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs (June 18 – 24) 2012, 87 min., International Premiere Sterling World Competition Screenings Tuesday, June 19, 12:15pm, Discovery HD Theater Wednesday, June 20, 8:30pm, Discovery HD Theater Director-Producer Mirjam von Arx is available for skype or email interviews. Director-Producer Mirjam von Arx and Editor Sabine Krayenbuehl will attend Silverdocs June 18-21. Contacts: Production Company World Sales Agent Press Silverdocs ican films gmbh Films Transit Int. Inc. Jody Arlington Lagerstrasse 101 252 Gouin Boulevard East 8633 Colesville Road 8004 Zürich Montreal, Quebec Silver Spring, MD 20910 Switzerland Canada H3L 1A8 USA Ph: +41 44 252 3359 Ph: 514-844-3358 Tel: (301) 495-6759 Fax: +41 44 252 3369 Fax: 514-844-7298 Fax: (301) 495-6798 mail: [email protected] mail: [email protected] mail: [email protected] http://www.ican-films.com http://www.filmstransit.com http://www.silverdocs.com 2 Synopsis Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity! As a counter- movement to the attitudes and practices of today’s culture, today one in eight girls in the US has vowed to remain “unsoiled” until marriage. But the seven children of the Wilson family, founders of the Purity Ball, take this concept of purity of body and mind one step further; even their first kiss will be at the altar. For two years the filmmakers follow the Wilson's as some of their children prepare for their fairytale vision of romance and marriage and seek out their own prince and princess spouses. In the process, a broader theme emerges: how the religious right is grooming a young generation of virgins to embody an Evangelically-grounded Utopia in America. The Blessing – a regular ritual at the Wilson’s house 3 Background Information about the Purity Movement Virginity is a cultural construct that has been purposefully applied in order to control and regulate what people think, feel, how they behave and sometimes even if they live or die. Even today. But those who think only of honor killings in radical Islamist states or ultra-orthodox Jews and their matchmakers are wrong. In so-called advanced, western nations in particular, the virginity cult is experiencing an outright boom in popularity. Like a lot of trends, this one is also from the United States. Every eighth girl in the United States makes a vow to remain chaste until marriage. Notable politicians support this attitude to counteract today’s supposed moral decay. Instead of sex education, schools are placing more emphasis on abstinence education. Evangelists that form the core of this movement make up a quarter of the U.S. population and are strongly represented in the government thus significantly influencing world politics. In Europe, their influence is not to be underestimated either: there are approximately 400,000 evangelists in France, one and a half million in Germany, and even five million in Great Britain. The Wilsons – The First Family of Purity Our protagonists, the Wilson Family, founders of the Purity Balls, could be called the “First Family of Purity". At this annual event that is awaited with as much anticipation as the prom, girls as young as four dressed in ballroom dresses come on their fathers’ arm and pledge to remain chaste until marriage. In the United States around 5,000 of these Purity Balls were held so far in Colorado and 47 other states. And Europeans are increasingly succumbing to the fervour. People from 17 countries, including Great Britain, France, Finland and Germany, have approached the Wilsons' to organize such events in their countries. Randy Wilson, head of the Wilson clan, is the key to this global purity movement. The press presents the Wilsons as the picture perfect family of the new purity movement. The five Wilson daughters are exemplars of virginity in the United States: young, pretty, charming and vowing to not even exchange the shyest of kisses before marriage. Even the eldest of the two brothers had his first kiss at the altar. The two eldest daughters Lauren and Khrystian already found, married, and kissed their fairytale princes. Next in line is 20-year-old Jordyn who is desperate for a husband at her side and - like her own father, brothers or brothers-in-law: family-friendly, God-fearing, and good looking (“he has to be easy on thea eyes”). She has agreed to shoot a video diary over the course of the production and her testimonials reflect a growing desire for a fairy-tale prince of her own. 4 The Wilson Family RANDY, 54 Randy Wilson is the patriarch and an extremely charismatic man. He comes from a deeply religious Evangelist family. Professionally, Randy is the National Field Director for Church Ministries at the Family Research Council, a Christian political organization dedicated to preaching the values of marriage and family through its presence in the media, schools, and in the political arena where it sets out to influence law making (abortion law above all). Randy particularly enjoys teaching and advising ministers on dealing with family issues – including, of course, the virtues of virginity. LISA, 53 Lisa met Randy in her early twenties in a church choir. Since then they have been married for 30 years and have seven children. When she speaks about the love for her family, tears quickly well up in her eyes. At the same time she talks about the hard times she went through: excessive demands of seven children she also home schools and money concerns that come with having such a large family. Lisa wants to help her children develop a healthy self-esteem through their outward appearance. She is the one who supports her daughters with fashion and make-up tips and teaches them how to smile in front of a mirror. She is also the one who strongly influenced the appearance of Purity Balls as a princess events. Her daughters should be sexy virgins, not plain Janes. LAUREN, 27 Lauren is the oldest of the Wilson children. In 2007 she moved to Idaho to live with her husband Brett, a member of the Air Force. She met her husband, who was in training, when she went with her brother Colten to visit the Air Force Academy in 2006. Lauren was the first of the Wilson children to wait until after the wedding for not only sex, but also the first kiss – a decision that even her mother Lisa labelled with amusement as “radical.” She and Brett did not even hold hands until after they married because they thought it would distract them from getting to know each other’s heart. Lauren’s fate is to follow her husband to whatever the military sends 5 him and then to wait for him for months since he is sent regularly to the front. But as of late she does not have to wait alone: Lauren is the proud mother of two children. COLTEN, 25 Colten is like a young Randy clone: charming, charismatic and self-confident, through and through a God-fearing golden boy who knows exactly how things are done. On a DVD of some the family rituals that the Wilsons distribute as illustrative material, a fifteen-year- old Colten leads a public prayer. Even back then he spoke and moved exactly like his father. Unlike his sisters, Colten attended a Christian college. And he was not dependent on his father when he married either: on his own initiative he met a girl at college who became his wife in 2009. But Colten and his wife Anna still observed the commitment to abstinence: the first kiss was exchanged at the altar. KHRYSTIAN, 24 Khrystian is the model virgin of the family: beautiful, sexy, self-confident – and overjoyed with her fate. She lives with her husband Chad in Tennessee. Her 31-year-old husband is a deeply religious Christian, attractive, charming, with hazelnut colored eyes and a smile that still makes Khrystian weak in the knees. He is gentle; a poet who writes beautiful love poems for her – and at the same time has the power and strength of a real warrior. After all, he is a regular in the military, and has already reached rank of captain. “God led this man into the kitchen of a family we’ve never met,” explains Khrystian, “and on their refrigerator was a photograph of us because someone in the family read our book. And now Chad is my husband. I am happier than I could have ever dared imagine in my fondest dreams. And I had nothing to do with it. I just had to wait until God executed his plan.“ Chad and Krystian’s father emailed each other for a while back and forth. After only six days, Chad asked Randy if he could come by over the weekend to meet Khrystian. Randy agreed and then everything went considerably quickly. Three days after his first visit, Chad asked Randy for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Up until this point, he and Khrystian had spent only four and a half days together. 6 JORDYN, 23 Jordyn is more of a shy young woman and as the fourth oldest she is next in line to marry, exchanging her father for a husband and thereby lose her virginity. She anxiously awaits this event. “It would be so great if I could marry this year!” she gushes. Asked about her fairy prince, she does not need long to think it over: “He has to love God and my family, of course, because those are the two things are most important to me in life.
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